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TIL Dave Chappelle is the only person who did commercials for Coke AND Pepsi

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J1vRk TIL Ships will store and purposefully dump oil into the ocean to create calm seas around them, called storm oil
d8x78 TIL that Witold Pilecki, a Polish soldier, voluntarily became a prisoner of Auschwitz in order to report what was going on in the camps to the Allies.
QN4Gd TIL that conjoined twins have been documented for thousands of years, and that there are 5 common types of conjoined twins and 11 rarer types.
9YygX TIL: the Ruppell’s Griffin Vulture is the highest flying bird at 7 miles (11 km) high. The avg height of commercial airlines.
xyr1 TIL that some believe humans are the only animals with the ability to ask questions. Chimps that learned sign language can answer, but never ask questions. Responsorial singing (one person calls, group responds) might be the way humans started asking and answering questions.